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From: glenn@huxley.huxley.bitstream.com (Glenn P. Parker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: How To Do User-Defined Conversion?
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Date: 12 Oct 90 14:09:22 GMT
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In-reply-to: achoi@cory.Berkeley.EDU's message of 12 Oct 90 02:24:44 GMT

In article <28717@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>,
achoi@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andrew Choi) writes:
> How do you define the operator which converts a class object to
> a pointer to a function returning int?

This may not be exactly what you wanted, but it works with cfront 2.0.
I couldn't get it work without the typedef.

class A
{
  public:
    typedef int (*intfunc)();

    intfunc f;

    operator intfunc() { return f; }
};

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